Summary: Chronicling the extraordinary life of Christopher 'The Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Biggie transforms himself from a Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to a pregnant woman) to superstardom. He has to juggle the increasing demands of fatherhood, marriage, and a music career that is strife with chaos and controversy. On March 8, 1997, in Los...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOTRiggle, Nick
Summary: In this engaging, fun, and astute investigation of a thoroughly contemporary condition, philosopher and former pro skater Nick Riggle argues that our collective interest in being awesome (and not sucking) marks a new era in American culture, one that is shaped by relatively recent social, political, and technological shifts. At the core of his work is the idea that awesome people are exemplars...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 RIGSummary: A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA LONSummary: Combines interviews, home videos, and archival concert footage to document the creation of the Wailer's classic reggae album, Catch a Fire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BOBMarley, Bob.
Contents: Lively up yourself -- Small axe -- Duppy conqueror -- Trenchtown rock -- African herbsman -- Keep on moving -- Fussing and fighting -- Stand alone -- All in one (medley, part 1) -- Don't rock the boat -- Put it on -- Sun is shining -- Kaya -- Riding high -- Brain washing -- Four hundred years.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Trojan Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE MARContents: Ba da (Roy 'Boogie Boy' Perkins) -- Read beans and rice (Scatman Patin with Linda Brannon) -- Cheaters can't win (Margaret Lewis) -- Flat foot Sam (T.V. Slim and his Heartbreakers) -- Mailman, mailman (Sonny 'Golden Boy' [Sonny Boy] Williamson) -- Come back Betty (L.C. Steel) -- I'm leaving (Linda Brannon) -- Bow wow puppy love (Jimmy Bonin) -- Drop top (Tk 1) (Roy 'Boogie Boy' Perkins) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHRHeggie, Jake
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Erato 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA HEGSummary: Optimistic hobo Isa, with her life in her backpack, has a gritty existence on the road, going from one town to another through northern France, working factory jobs and selling cards. After she loses a garment-factory job, her coworker Marie lets Isa share space in her Lille living quarters, an apartment belonging to a hospitalized mother and daughter. Isa goes through two tempestous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DRESummary: A visitor from outer space comes with the warning that unless war is abolished, Earth will be destroyed by the more advanced planets of the universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DAYSummary: Governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind a visitor's appearance. Dr. Helen Benson is a renowned scientist who finds herself face-to-face with an alien called Klaatu. Klaatu has traveled across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. She quickly discovers the deadly ramificications of Klaatu's claim that he is a 'friend to the Earth.' Now, she and her yourng...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DAYSummary: Anna Karenina: When the young wife of a statesman runs off with a young officer, she is outcast and forbidden to see her son. Desperate, the woman comes to believe that life is no longer worth living -- A farewell to arms: When an injured American ambulance driver and English nurse desert to Switzerland, the danger they've struggled to escape is replaced by a more serious threat. -- Les...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWEFergie
Contents: Fergalicious (feat. will.i.am) -- Clumsy -- All that I got (the make up song) -- London Bridge -- Pedestal -- Voodoo doll -- Glamorous (feat. Ludacris) -- Here I come -- Velvet -- Big girls don't cry -- Mary Jane shoes -- Losing my ground -- Finally.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: A&M Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FERContents: Too young / Nat King Cole -- Wild, wild young men / Ruth Brown -- Seventeen / Boyd Bennett and his Rockets -- Teenage prayer / Gale Storm -- Boogie woogie teenage / Don Julian and the Meadowlarks -- Teenage mambo / The Gaylarks -- Teenage partner / Gene Vincent -- Teenage crush / Tommy Sands -- I'm not a juvenile delinquent / Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers -- Teenage party / Tommy Steele --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TEENadelson, Reggie.
Summary: A former KGB general is murdered in New York and the case is given to officer Artie Cohen, a Russian immigrant. Suspected are Russian mafiosi dealing in arms and the probe takes Cohen to Moscow, into the arms of lovely Svetlana. A look at life in Moscow today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NADWalton, Rick.
Summary: Features a collection of jokes about school with each page devoted to a different theme.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 793.7 WALRock
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.812 ROCKing, Reggie.
Contents: Get up, get away -- Let me see some love in your eyes -- You gotta believe me -- All up to heaven -- So full of love -- Merry go round -- Suddenly -- Picking up Nancy's grin -- In and out -- Put something together -- Live forever -- Magenta -- Thinkin' bout getting out -- They must be talking 'bout me -- You'll be around
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Circle Records 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KINSummary: After losing the war against the Cylon robots, the Battlestar Galactica crew heads toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth. Galactica Commander Adama and President Laura Roslin are facing the problems of waning supplies and crushed morale. Along the way they have to deal with the credible threat that Cylons may be aboard the ship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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Summary: Unique blend of improvised music, vocalizations, and humor.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Comedy Central Records 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN WATJackson, Reggie.
Summary: Reggie Jackson hit 563 home runs and drove in 1,702 runs over the course of his twenty-one-year career; he played three World Series-winning seasons with the Oakland Athletics, and two with the New York Yankees. He is a special adviser to the Yankees.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 JACKSON, REGGIE JACWatts, Reggie.
Summary: Growing up as the only biracial kid in Great Falls, Montana, the comedian, musician and band leader takes us through his story, hitting upon the culture shock he experienced after moving from Europe to Montana--a place he needed to leave, but is ultimately drawn back to.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WATTS, REGGIE WATSummary: "The Colonies' survivors have found their hopes of eluding their Cylon pursuers dashed by an invasion and occupation of their new home. As the fate of all human life hangs in the balance, friends become enemies, enemies become unexpected allies, and decisions are made that will haunt some people for the rest of their lives"--Set container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: Kay Eiffel is an author writing her latest novel. Her story revolves about an isolated man named Harold Crick. What she doesn't know is that her fictionalized character is real. Harold is an IRS agent who has lived a dull existence. One day begins to hear Karen's voice as she narrates what she is putting down on paper. Harold enlists the help of a literary professor to find out what is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007